As usual, I asked my 12 yo stepson (6th grade) how school was today, what did you learn, etc. when I picked him up from the bus stop.

He told me about a story that they read in class together. Once again, not a story that came home with the kids to read at home - just read together in class. The trend is obvious to me. (so the parents won't know)

The story was about a Mexican family. The older sister emigrated to the US, legally, and lived in LA, CA. The younger brother stayed in Mexico to take care of their elderly father. A few years later the father passed away. Then the brother takes a "scary, dangerous journey" to go to live with his sister in LA. My son starts to describe this journey like it's a cool adventure story.

I stop my him and ask, "Why was it scary and dangerous?" He says that the brother had to pay dangerous people to take him to his sister in LA and that it was a scary trip through the desert, blah blah blah. My eyeballs almost popped out of my skull. Luckily my son was in the back seat of the truck and didn't see my face.

So I calmly ask, "Did he sneak into the country?"
Son: Yes...
Me: Did your teacher say that it was wrong to do that?
Son: No. She said that he wanted to be with his sister.
Me: OK, but you know that you can't just sneak into this country right? You have to follow the law?
Son: Yeah, I know that.
Me: So what he did was wrong?
Son: I guess so....
Me: Yes, it was wrong. His sister did it the right way. She followed the law. Why didn't he?
Son: I don't know. We didn't talk about that. It was mostly about how scary it was for him.
Me, holding back my pissed-offed-ness: OK, so how did the story end?
Son: They both met at her house and were happy.

Then I went into the story about how my son's mother escaped Communism, came here LEGALLY from Laos in the early 70's, and how he is lucky to be a first generation American citizen. Plus how his mother went through the LEGAL process to become a real American herself and not take the easy shortcut by sneaking in and faking it. A story he heard many times and is probably tired of hearing. I did my best to un-indoctrinate him, yet again. Understand that I didn't berate my son about the story. I calmly asked questions and we discussed it. It's not his fault they shove this garbage down his throat. It's my job to reach in and take it back out.

I know I'm beating a dead horse a bit over the last few months about the government schools, but give me a break. Teaching kids that it's OK to sneak into this country illegally? Or at least condoning it? Holy shit! I wonder if there is ANY other country on Earth that teaches their children this shit.

Maybe the edu-crats have determined that the 6th grade is when it is time to seriously indoctrinate, got me, but this year has been frustrating to say the least.

We are working on getting to a point financially that we can home school, private school, whatever, but goddamn this shit pisses me off. We have a year and a half before my little girl starts school, so we need to get our shit together fast.